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KDE 4.1 Released, Reviewed
StoneLion writes "After months of development and controversy, the KDE project announced the release of KDE 4.1 today. Linux.com (a Slashdot sister site) took a hands-on look at the new code, and reviewer Jeremy LaCroix says, 'KDE 4.1 simply rocks.'" Bruce Byfield's review is quite positive, as well.
Do we really need notification of a (dot)1 release?
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I'm hard pressed to think of anything missing
Not that's what I call real target audience. Without Amarok, kile (at least the last time I checked) and some others, there's no way for me to switch from KDE3. Maybe I'm one stupid prick, but I care more about my applications than the DE and the looks, since it's the apps I use the DE for in the first place.
And about Dolphin... I hated its first plans back in the days, I hated the first versions, and there's still nothing in it that would make me like it more then konqueror. I find it a sorry excuse of a "simplified" file manager [or whatever you might call it] and I wish it vanished from the face of this earth.
I am putting myself to the fullest possible use, which is all I can think that any conscious entity can ever hope to do.
I would like to some more critical reviews.
OK.
KDE 4.1 Sucks arse. It is only one tenth of a percent "better" than 4.0.
Also, your HTML looks funny and we are going to pick you last for whatever game we play at recess.
Is that critical enough? I can do this all day. ;)
What ever it is, it still looks like OS by FischerPrice to me. Of course, I could say the same about XP, Vista, and pretty much every other OS.
Why do they all look like they were designed for 4yos?
There is no "-1 offended" or "-1 you don't agree with me" mod options for a reason.
English, motherfucker -do you speak it?
Also capslock is cruise control for cool amirite?
Are people supposed to laugh or cry at that or just throw up?
I really can't believe this is the cutting edge desktop Linux.
http://laughingsquid.com/wp-content/uploads/leopard_desktop.jpg
http://www.pranadharma.com/images/osx_openfile_dialog.png
http://www.pranadharma.com/images/osx_finder_permissions.png
How is it possible for the KDE developers:
* Not to have the commercial/modern quality UI toolkit elements - they are right there in OS X to play with, take screen captures from, and to serve a models for how modern UI toolkits work
* Have no clue about how the 3D desktop is used to convey information to the user - not just something to throw in to try to make it look 'kewl'
* Have no clue about consistent shading/light source for the entire desktop
* Have no clue about things like gaussian blur/shadows to give importance and information about windows and other UI elements to the user
* Have no clue about how colours are used to convey information to the user and are not just some random thing to be changed with skins
It's like the KDE developers aren't even trying. It's like they refuse to learn ANYTHING from the last twenty years of desktop technology advancement.
Just delete the damn KDE source tree and move on to some other project - this garbage isn't going to ever be used by anyone outside a tiny group of people.
There are devs for KDE who invite personal attacks by being condescending assholes (hi there, aseigo!) and while at least Troy was removed from the project, the rest still tromp cheerfully along, fucking up what was a good DE.
Maybe the less dickish devs can save KDE from itself, but I don't hold much hope.
"You can either have software quality or you can have pointer arithmetic, but you cannot have both at the same time."
They should drop stupid QT and absolutely hideous X11/XFree86 long ago and write their own GUI core.
Your logic seems horribly backwards. By your definition, the best FOSS software is the software that no one uses.
This vain attitude of "fuck-the-user" is precisely why 95% of the world uses Windows but doesn't have to, could have computers free of malware but do not, could have encrypted GPG emails but are spied on by the government, etc...
Currently FOSS is a religion (people release their code under GPL because it's morally right, not because it makes any sense) because it's an attractive meme. And in time, like religion, this idea will be exposed as worthless. However, if it is ever to mature into a real business model (and this can happen, because the OS model of software development has tremendous advantages) and do real good in the world, developers must let their own desires take a back seat to what their users want, and this is something that seems impossible for many people here to do.
If you were interested in building a business centered on FOSS, you would realize that "regular users, especially rabid, demanding ones" are the greatest gifts you could ever receive and would add many useful thing to an Open Source Software project. You talk about FOSS in your post, but I think you have it confused for "intellectual masturbation that happens to be open sourced".
Anyways, I'm going over to read Linux Hater's Blog. Have fun coding!
.there is enough of everything for everyone.